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6.23.16
Week: 25 \ Day: 175
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 92° \ L 58°
Average Sky Cover: 55%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 93°[1974]
Record Low: 31°[1948]
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Quote
of the Day
To the artist there is never anything ugly in
nature. ~Auguste Rodin
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Observances
Today
International Widows'
Day Link
Let It Go Day
Pink Flamingo
Day (Lawn Ornaments) Link
Public Service Day
Ramadan: -7/5
Runner's Selfie Day
SAT Math Day Link
Typing Day
UN Public service Day
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Observances
This Week
○ 19-25
Animal Rights
Awareness Week Link
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week Link
○ 20-26
Meet A Mate Week
○ 23-26
Watermelon Seed
Spitting Week
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1683 William
Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania;
only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1784 1st
US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1810 John
Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon)
1888 Frederick
Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President
1926 The
College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA
1938 Marineland
opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1944 Thomas
Mann becomes a US citizen
1949 First
twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1955 Walt
Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1967 Jim
Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)
1972 Hurricane
Agnes becomes US's costliest natural disaster, effecting 15 states, with 119
deaths, $3 billion damage
1972 Pres
Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1986 Tip
O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
930 World's
oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing
or Althingi), established
1775 1st
regatta held on Thames, England
1894 The
International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the
initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
1982 -117°F;
All time low at South Pole
1994 South
Africa is readmitted to the United Nations Organizations (UNO)
2004 Bob
Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St
Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
2014 Claude
Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another hot
day…this is so unusual…hope it ends soon. A little moisture yesterday, just
enough to dirty the car windows.
So ready for
my Barcelona-Paris adventure. It’s still a month away, but I am getting
excited.
Them
scammers are really persistent. Yesterday, I got home to a phone message that
the IRS was filing charges against me for tax bills. I laughed and moved on.
When I was at the computer, I got another robocall from the same number,
warning me that prison time was assured if I didn’t call them within the next 2
hours. Laughable to me, but I’m sure some other older people might fall for
this.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
H I J K L M N O
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in
interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
H I J K L M
N O
What object does this represent?
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…Harper’s
Index…
$1400-Amount
in excess of which the cash assets of refugees will be seized under a proposed
Danish law
86-Number
of refugees arrested in the US on terrorism-related charges since 2001
320-Number
of natural born US citizens
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
discovery.hd.
Photography by @ (Eko Adiyanto). Ants Holding Seeds,
in West Java, Indonesia.#Ants #Nature #WestJava #Macro #Indonesia #amazing
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2
jokes for the day
IRS
Confession Letter
A man wrote
a letter to the IRS:
“I have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I
understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $200.00. If I still
can’t sleep, I will send the rest.”
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Reason Behind the Heavy Oak Door
After cleaning his patient’s teeth, the dentist accompanied
the five year old boy to the reception area, only to see him struggle with the
oak door.
“It’s heavy, isn’t it?” asked the dentist.
“Yes,” he said. “Is that so children can’t escape?”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-------
Tesla Floats Past Stranded Cars -------*
A Tesla
owner in Kazakhstan showed off his car's ability to traverse a flooded tunnel
and the video caught the attention of CEO Elon Musk. Sanzhar Altayev posted a
video to YouTube showing what happened when he drove his Tesla Model S through
a flooded tunnel filled with stalled and stranded cars. Altayev's car begins to
float and is able to make it to the other side of the flood, where it drives
away on dry land. "When Tesla enters flooded tunnel it starts to float!
Any weather is grace with Tesla! Shame to skeptics!" Altayev wrote. The
video caught the attention of Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, who confirmed the
car's capabilities. "We *def* don't recommended this, but Model S floats
well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time. Thrust via wheel
rotation," Musk tweeted.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Grover
Cleveland was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He
was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring the trap
at a hanging.
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Abraham
Lincoln (1809-1865) is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed
bartender. He was co-owner of Berry and Lincoln, a saloon in Springfield,
Illinois.
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Ronald
Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) won the Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure Award from
the University of California in 1940.
***
The term 'O.K.' derives from President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) who was
known as 'Old Kinderhook' because he was raised in Kinderhook, New York. 'O.K.'
clubs were created to support Van Buren's campaigns.
***
The youngest
president was Teddy Roosevelt who became president at age 42 when McKinley
(1843-1901) was assassinated. JFK was the youngest president elected at the age
of 43.
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Andrew
Johnson was the first president to be impeached. He was acquitted by one vote
in the Senate. It would be another 131 years before another president, Bill
Clinton, would be impeached.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[77] Edward
VIII,
King
of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of
India (Jan 20th, 1936 until his abdication on Dec 11th, 1936), born in
Richmond, England (d. 1972)
[73] June
Carter Cash,
American
country singer (Johnny Cash Show), born in Maces Spring, Virginia (d. 2003)
70- Ted
Shackelford,
actor
(Gary-Dallas, Knots Landing), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
60-
Randy Jackson,
TV
SHOW HOST
44- Selma
Blair,
American
actress (Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde) born in Southfield, Michigan
[41] Alan
Turing,
mathematician/pioneer
in computer theory (Turing Machine), born in London (d. 1954)
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Historical
Obits Today
@87-1998 Maureen
O'Sullivan,
Irish
actress
@86-2015 Dick
Van Patten,
American
actor (Tom Bradford in 8 is Enough)
@86-2009 Ed
McMahon,
American
television personality (b. 1923)
@83-2011 Peter
Falk,
American
actor
@83-2006 Aaron
Spelling,
American
television producer (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
@80-1995 Jonas
Salk,
biologist
(Polio vaccine)
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Water. H2O
(H to O)
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Disclaimer: All opinions are
mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the
internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I
have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information
is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify.
Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the
dates may not be totally accurate.
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